초록 ▼

A bra or garment configured to function at least in part in the manner of a brassiere and usable by a nursing mother for improved ease of nursing an infant child, the invention provides dual exterior bra cup covers releasably fastened about certain peripheral portions thereof to portions of a body-e

A bra or garment configured to function at least in part in the manner of a brassiere and usable by a nursing mother for improved ease of nursing an infant child, the invention provides dual exterior bra cup covers releasably fastened about certain peripheral portions thereof to portions of a body-encircling band or foundation garment, which cup covers are permanently fastened along other peripheral portions to the bra or foundation garments, the covers further being disposed on front surfaces of the bra or garment in surmounting relation to the breast of a user when the bra or garment is worn. The cup covers of the garment can each be opened from respective locations substantially under or near the underarms of a user to expose interior cups having a central opening formed in each of said interior cups, thereby to facilitate nursing by an infant such as when the infant is held in the crook of the arm of a user. The exterior cup covers can be opened partially or pulled fully toward the center of the garment for full opening, the necessary degree of opening of the cup covers being controllable as desired to accomplish the nursing function.

대표청구항 ▼

1. A method for improving access of a nursing infant cradled in the crook of an arm of a nursing mother with a breast of the nursing mother wearing a nursing bra having at least one opening formed therein through which said breast and a nursing portion thereof at least partially extends, the breast

1. A method for improving access of a nursing infant cradled in the crook of an arm of a nursing mother with a breast of the nursing mother wearing a nursing bra having at least one opening formed therein through which said breast and a nursing portion thereof at least partially extends, the breast being covered when in a non-nursing mode by means of a bra cup mounted releasably over the opening, the method comprising the steps of:detaching the bra cup from the bra at a location proximus to an underarm of the arm of the mother in which the infant is cradled; and, opening the bra cup to expose the opening and the nursing portion of the breast extending at least partially therethrough in a direction from the underarm toward front central portions of the bra to permit nursing of the nursing infant.